The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Apostles 14
1 In Iconium, they entered together into
the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke
that a great multitude both of Jews and of
Greeks believed.
2 But the disbelieving† Jews stirred up
and embittered the souls of the Gentiles
against the brothers.
3 Therefore they stayedthere a long time,
speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified
to the word of his grace, granting signs and
wonders to be done by their hands.
4 But the multitude of the city was divided.
Part sided with the Jews and part
with the apostles.
5 When some of both the Gentiles and
the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent
attempt to mistreat and stone them,
6 they became aware of it and fled to the
cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the
surrounding region.
7 There they preached the Good News.
8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in
his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb,
who never had walked.
9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who,
fastening eyes on him and seeing that he
had faith to be made whole,
10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright
on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
11 When the multitude saw what Paul
had done, they lifted up their voice, saying
in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods
have come down to us in the likeness of
men!”
12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and
Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief
speaker.
13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple
was in front of their city, brought oxen
and garlands to the gates, and would have
made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and
Paul, heard ofit,they tore their clothes and
sprang into the multitude, crying out,
15 “Men, why are you doing these things?
We also are men ofthe same nature as you,
and bring you good news, that you should
turn from these vain things to the living
God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea,
and all that is in them;
16 who in the generations gone by allowed
all the nations to walk in their own ways.
17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without
witness, in that he did good and gave you‡
rains from the sky and fruitful seasons,
filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
18 Even saying these things, they hardly
stopped the multitudes from making a
sacrifice to them.
19 But some Jews from Antioch and
Iconium came there, and having persuaded
the multitudes, they stoned Paul
and dragged him out of the city, supposing
that he was dead.
20 But as the disciples stood around him,
he rose up, and entered into the city. On
the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
21 When they had preached the Good
News to that city and had made many disciples,
they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
22 strengthening the souls of the disciples,
exhorting them to continue in the
faith, and thatthrough many afflictions we
must enter into God’s Kingdom.
23 When they had appointed elders for
them in every assembly, and had prayed
with fasting, they commended them to the
Lord on whom they had believed.
24 They passed through Pisidia and came
to Pamphylia.
25 When they had spoken the word in
Perga, they went down to Attalia.
26 From there they sailed to Antioch,
from where they had been committed to
the grace of God for the work which they
had fulfilled.
27 When they had arrived and had gathered
the assembly together, they reported
allthe things that God had done with them,
and that he had opened a door of faith to
the nations.
28 They stayed there with the disciples
for a long time.